Improvement in wooden boxes



G. HARRINGTON.

WOODEN-Box.

N0. 191,235 Patented May 29,1877.

ZW 'Q7 maga/3422@ y UNITED STATES PATENT QEEIOE.

GEORGE HARRINGTON, OF SPRINGFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS.-

IMPROVEMENT IN WOODEN BOXES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 191,236, dated May 29,1877; application tiled February 14, 1877.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE HARRINGTON, of Springfield, State ofMassachusetts, have invented an Improved Box, of which the fol lowing isa specification:

My invention consists in forming the top and bottom of a Wooden box,having cylindrical sides, of blocks of Wood having grooves turned Orsunk in them to receive the Wall of the box, so that While one servingfor the bottom has the wall seated in its groove and permanently securedthere by glue or otherwise, the other makes a top in which thel doublewalls forming the sides of the groove form friction-surfaces that comeagainst the Wall to retain the top in place, and this groove permits avariation in size and departure from a perfectly smooth and regular formin the elastic wall of the box by bearing against the inside surface ofthe Wall of the box where it does not bear against its outside.

The object of my invention is the construction of a box for such lightarticles as collars, culi's, Ste., in which the sides made ot' Woodapproximating in thickness to a veneer cannot be reduced in size to belinished or litted When once formed. Such boxes require a thicker' topto make of them asuccess that Will act as aformer to hold them to acylindrical shape as well as accommodate itself to any Wall having thesame superficial extent.

In Figure l a perspective view is shown of a box with the cover removed.Fig. II shows a plan view of the underneath side of the top and thegroove therein, Fig. III being a plan view of a wall.

The bottom B, being a counterpart of the top O, receives the round WallW of the box in the circular groove b, which, in practice, I make aboutone-fourth of an inch in depth, where it is secured additionally byglue, if desired.

The groove b is made Wide enough to re ceive the wall, should it beatteued, and, as before mentioned, Where one side ot' the groove failsto bear continuously against one side of the wall, the other side of thegroove nds a bearing, and a top is thus provided that lls admirably thespecial requirements of a wall so thin as to be easily distorted, asWell as one that, while it can be turned with the greatest uniformity;this enables the Wall to be made so cheaply that the entire box can bemade for One-half of the cost that would result from having to fit theparts with the usual degree of accuracy required in box-making.

Now, having described my invention, what I claim is- In combination withthe compressible and elastic wall W of a cylindrical wooden box, the topor bottom provided with the circular groovebtnrned therein for receivingand binding the said wall when sprung into the groove,

as set forth.

GEO. HARRINGTON. Witnesses:

R. F. HYDE, PnELrs JOHNSON.

